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    Windows 11

    Having an extra key to rebind for my own nefarious uses is always nice. But then, most keyboards will likely have it replacing the Menu key, having the Menu function as a Fn layer, I suppose.
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    Home NAS

    If it works? Sure. I'm used to being my own support anyway. Now, would I implement this for a client? Hell no. You stick to by the books for liability reasons there.
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    Home NAS

    Tell that 16GB limitation to ASRock because they claim their N100M supports up to 32GB. I suppose it's unofficial and the lack of dual channel deals me 3d6 psychic damage every turn but supposedly it works.
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    Video Cards

    For what it's worth, my A770LE is great. If you play a lot of DX11/9 games it can still be a little iffy (but it has come a very very very long way from launch), and for compute if you're not buying nVidia you're just not getting the job done because you don't have CUDA, but for DX12 and...
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    Need a Decent Phone

    Yeah, like I said, the US doesn't get cool stuff anymore, and that includes competent mid-rangers. You can get an A5x on a carrier, I'm sure, but if you want to buy unlocked, it's pretty much only high end stuff available. There's an argument to be made that an older flagship is a better buy...
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    Windows 11

    It's not something you have to continually apply, Lunar, it's a checkbox you tick and let it run initial setup and then it's protected thereafter transparently to the user. And like I said you'd be shocked what ends up in your temp files. Lots of settings and software installers unpack there, to...
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    Windows 11

    Yeah, no, I've dealt with the default behavior of Bitlocker. It's not encrypting thumb drives that's for sure. And normal users definitely aren't pulling their OS drive and trying it in another computer. That said, you'd be surprised what your C: partition contains just in your temp folders...
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    Ryzen

    Meanwhile, my 5700X looking at the calendar and shrugging. I'll get whatever's reasonably powerful and on sale in 3 or so years.
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    Windows 11

    Thanks for the tip on removing it there -- I used to remove it, but gave up when it showed back up after every feature update back in the Win10 days.
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    Windows 11

    Use Rufus to make fresh install media that's set up to give you a local account instead, if you're not already too entrenched. It makes sure you only have the crapware Microsoft themselves approved of, and makes for a much more manageable base system than the factory image. If you are already...
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    Windows 11

    Anybody still stuck on MS SQL in the year of our lord 2024 deserves pity, IMO. I won't argue that Visual Studio is better and Win10 supports some things out of the box that are a pain in the ass on 7 at best, but that's more a case of things just not being common/available when 7 came out vs...
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    Non-Binary DDR5

    I had a feeling the non-^2 sizing was a way to maximize yields. As long as they perform about the same, I'm not fussed.
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    Windows 11 not connecting ethernet network until logged in

    That tracks with MS's general philosophy of our way or the highway. It's probably a project for the weekend.
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    Home NAS

    Even the Intel N100 is a hell of a platform for low power appliances like NAS, routers, etc. 4 Alder E-cores in a 6W package? They perform roughly the same IPC-wise as Haswell, reportedly. I have one in a little router box I'm running pfSense on now -- the dual-LAN Shuttle mini PC with the...
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    Windows 11 not connecting ethernet network until logged in

    I'll probably end up biting my tongue and just setting up an identical copy of Samba on the original NAS VM since NFS is being such a stinker for me. It's also just generally pretty terrible latency wise -- it really loves locking up my file explorer windows in ways my SMB shares never did. Part...
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